EURORIP aims to produce the first RIP to provide several interpreter languages at once, to solve the font selection problem by providing a font server, to enable a grey-scale screen display as true WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get), and to give colour enhancements to PDLs. Adapting EURORIP for other hosts (such as mainframe computers) will be possible as well. It will directly drive a screen and a common laser-printer engine, and will be easily adaptable for special screens, laser or inkjet printer engines or typesetters, as it will handle coarse resolution (screens), low resolution (printers), and high resolution (typesetters) simultaneously. EURORIP will be used as platform for standard PDLs and fonts in order to facilitate porting them to special raster image processors.
It will provide several common page-description languages (PDLs), such as PostScript, together with outline-fonts as a common interpreter and a common font resource.
Rip raster image processor Pc#
The Raster Image Processor (RIP) will consist of a board, which can be plugged into a PC (AT) or a PS/2 or compatible, with between 8 and 16 Mbyte of memory and using a modern CPU. The EURORIP project aims to develop a cheap coprocessor that will provide a PC with the ability to implement graphics applications with high performance and fidelity.
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